Survey: How many of you subscibed(and remained subscribed) for the fanservice?

[Gramul]

Enough with the hyperbole!
At this point there's no actual argument, just a continual stream of "No this group sucks" "No that group sucks". This is total nonsense and we're entirely aware of it.

We know that when people say clone they don't mean a literal freaking clone.
We know that there are enough differences in this game to garner interest and appreciation for a lot of people.
We know that not everyone who actually likes this game is a WoW fanboy.
We know that not everyone who doesn't like this game is an XI fanboy.

The more we make up assumptions to protect our arguments, the more we poison the well when listening to each other. This mud slinging, demonization and convenient categorization needs to stop immediately if we want to get an actual debate out of this.
I've seen more civil behavior on 4chan.

[Teirshin]

SE should be thanking whatever Gods they worship that they have no real competition in the marketplace, or FFXIV would already be sunk.

Wildstar was the only recent thing that could have maybe hurt FFXIV and they're apparently bleeding customers atm.

I expect a lot will bail on FFXIV for a while when the next WoW expansion hits. Some will come back here after a while, some wont.

I stay for now because I'm invested here, but I've got no loyalty to this game if anything even remotely better shows up in the market. They've done nothing to earn my loyalty really, so for now, I log in out of habit and to talk to friends, thats about it.

[Gerolan]

I play the game because it entertains me, the day that stops is possibly the day I stop playing.
Yes I played previous titles but that's not my reason for playing XIV.
Sure I have a few gripes with the game , who doesn't?
But I'm currently hovering over the max 180 days subscribed, and can't add another time card as yet, so I will be playing for a longtime.
If you are playing something you don't enjoy, stop and try something else.
Also XIV isn't a wow clone, I play it as it's own game and don't try compare

[Felis]

Not gonna lie, that's why I stopped playing FFXI because I heard it was going to be dedicated to old final fantasy series.

So far so good, though the content is lacking but only to those before remake and beta players who started. I am sure it will be big when the expansion is released so I have hope.

But I do agree, 2.3 patch wasn't a lot. Probably the weakest one yet.

even the chocobo dye system is broken.

example my girl she uses 7 doman plums and 8 valfruit it changed it colbri pink.

She screws it up when I told her not to touch it.

so we use lemon to reset back to original

use the same thing 7 doman and 8 valfruit

changes it to green then again with lemon then same thing changes it to brown.

Broken.

Not broken, it only need a ingame tutorial
Count the amount of "new feathes are growing" messages next time

[Gerolan]

As for the choco dying being broken.
I found the google doc to be handy and accurate
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=1434222506

Not failed once using it, it isn't broken, you just need to pay attention and agreed a small tutorial would of helped a lot of people

[odintius]

I play because the game has a good story going for it the battle system isn't to fast or to slow they went for a medium approach which I like. The class/job is kinda meh but expect it to branch out more when expansions comes out hopefully. For me though the vertical progression of gear were you just throw it away for the next update is getting stale for me fast, kinda wish materia was able to be used on end gear and crafters could take the old gear you had and enhance the new gear stats.

[Ashkendor]

It is true that the game is SLOWLY treading away from being a WoW clone, but its going to take a lot more for it to be "its own game" as you say but these latest updates have been steps in the right direction. Though front lines reminds me a lot of one of WoW's PVP modes, it can't be helped given the fact that the PVP mode model has been used over and over by countless MMOs. I think your confusing this topic for a "This is a WoW rip!" rager when in fact, that was merely a moot point that I made.

This game is no more a clone of WoW than WoW is a clone of the MUDs and other games that came before it.

@OP - I play because a RL friend got me to try it and I found the game enjoyable on a lot of levels. There's really a lot of depth here once you start getting into some of the varying aspects of the game.

Also, hawt mancat eyecandy. :3

[Gerolan]

I play because the game has a good story going for it the battle system isn't to fast or to slow they went for a medium approach which I like. The class/job is kinda meh but expect it to branch out more when expansions comes out hopefully. For me though the vertical progression of gear were you just throw it away for the next update is getting stale for me fast, kinda wish materia was able to be used on end gear and crafters could take the old gear you had and enhance the new gear stats.

I wish they would rework materia, I loved in VII how materia grew stronger, in here it's such a wasted throw away feature due to lack of options on end gear

[Vladislav]

Was play 1.0 all time life span , prob will play Arr till it fade or became outdated/boring like XI do now . WoW clone or not clone i don't care , i never played WoW . I like beatiful design & music in this game and many more things , tho there is things i'd liked to fixed - like Coil & Ex (tho other ppl's may think differ)

[FritoBandito]

I remain subscribed for a few reasons:

First of all, I want this game to continue improving and will give it my support.

Second, I managed to link back up with a handful of friends from FFXI and we play together and I enjoy time spent with them, and also the new friends I have made.

Third, I do enjoy quite a bit about this game and there is a lot I would like to accomplish in it. If I were to up and quit, I would feel like I'm walking away from an unfinished project.